Yes, but the water is insulated.
(That's why my 8th grade electrical shop teacher said why birds on powerlines don't get electrocuted.)
Yes, but the water is insulated.
(That's why my 8th grade electrical shop teacher said why birds on powerlines don't get electrocuted.)
I wouldn't piss on an electric fence but I wouldn't be afraid to turn a hose on one.
They are shaped like umbrellas so that they stay partly dry when it rains.
They use deionised water
How does that happen? Strong magnetic field? Touching two cables?
If you watch the video, you will see that is not the case.
Nope
Two terminals.
The video isnt RAIN
Precisely.
Parent on one cable feeding chicks on another
Cool, just wondering since I was spraying mist on a parrot and he was rather close to a light socket.
Squirrels occasionally span an insulator and take out local power.
Our parrot Quincy loves to be sprayed too. There's no hazard from a nearby outlet.
San Francisco, after very much debate, has just declared the parrot to be The Official City Animal. We have giant, noisy, obnoxious flocks of wild parrots here. There's a nice movie about that.
Raccoons climbing around a transformer station to : 1. find a warm spot in cold weather 2. find bird nests to get the eggs
.. can cause outages and sometimes even extreme and expensive equipment damage .. they don't always die from their efforts - I once saw one with most of its fur burned off wandering around the switchyard, after a 28 kV mishap. John T.
The difference should be audible. Transformers hum and corona hisses.
My 150kV x 0.047uF Capacitor discharges quickly on a damp foggy morning.
How do you make 150 KV? Sounds like fun.
Multiple doublers.
My idea was to get a lot of caps and tape them in series, to a PVC pipe.
Charge the top one, then the next one, and so on.
Yep, and you never hear major substations hiss in hot humid weather.
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